by Lucy R | Jun 7, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News, Trends
Last month Dr Julia Brophy, Marisol Smith with Jagbir Jhutti-Johal published an evaluation of the implementation of the President of the Family Division’s 2018 guidance on anonymisation of judgments. That guidance was based upon earlier work by Dr Brophy which...
by Paul M | Jun 4, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
HM Courts and Tribunals Service have recently published statistics about the number of hearings conducted remotely, ie by audio, video or on paper, compared with physical in-person hearings, over the course of the coronavirus lockdown. The statistics cover civil and...
by Julie Doughty | May 26, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch
Three years ago, eyebrows were raised when Mr Justice Mostyn stated in the case of GM v Carmarthenshire County Council & Anor [2018] EWFC 36 that use of attachment theory by a social worker was not ‘expert’ evidence and that he didn’t need a social worker to...
by Julie Doughty | May 18, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Notorious
This judgment, Cardiff City Council v A Mother & Ors [2021] EWFC 44, relates to the case that Emily Dugan wrote about in the Sunday Times and that we wrote about here. This judgment appears to be the only one given by HHJ Jonathan Furness that has ever been...
by reporting watch team | May 16, 2021 | Comment, Consultations, FCReportingWatch, Transparency News
This is the REVISED text of a submission to the President of the Family Division’s Transparency Review made by Sir James Munby (former President of the Family Division), in advance of the oral evidence session scheduled for 17 May 2021. It is published here with kind...
by Julie Doughty | May 16, 2021 | Cases, FCReportingWatch
This is the view of the Sunday Times in its editorial today, ‘The Sunday Times view on public transparency: A secrecy fixation shrouds decisions that affect us all’, which features a report by Emily Dugan, ‘Our baby was taken from us for months...
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